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by mtalantikite 4308 days ago
I don't know, as I'm writing this there are about 7-10 posts that are actually technical on the front page. The rest are product announcements or fluff tech articles from Wired. Actually, some of these technical posts (like GHC passes in Coq) are feature announcements as well.

That's not to say I don't enjoy HN, it's great, but I certainly could use less of the "Show HN" startup announcements on the front page or techcrunch articles that are about nothing.
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dang 4308 days ago
I really think this is whatever that bias is where we rewrite our memories to match how we feel about the past.

As long as we're taking random samples, let's see what, say, November 2010 looked like:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101119073443/http://news.ycomb...

How about March 2008? (I'm picking these arbitrarily...)

https://web.archive.org/web/20080327223917/http://news.ycomb...

If either of those front pages showed up today, people would be complaining very loudly about HN's steep decline.

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mtalantikite 4308 days ago
Yeah, I guess the takeaway is that Wired and Techcrunch have been terrible for a long time ;)

I still find both of those archive grabs more interesting. They're certainly not all posts just for the neckbeards, that's not what ever drew me to HN, but they don't lean so heavy towards "Show HN: Please look at my startup".

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